Prof. Carlos Grijalva
sgrijalva@ece.gatech.edu
Van Leer
E284
US
Office: (404) 894-4641
Instructor informationBiography
Dr. Grijalva received the Electrical Engineer degree from EPN-Ecuador in 1994, the M.Sc. certificate in Information Systems from ESPE-Ecuador in 1997, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Power and Energy Systems at the University of Illinois. During his graduate studies at Illinois, he received Fulbright and American States Organization Fellowships. His Ph.D. work was on power system voltage stability and nonlinear available transfer capability computations.
From 1995 to 1997, he was with the Ecuadorian Center for Energy Control (CENACE) as engineer and manager of the Software Department. After completing his doctorate, he joined PowerWorld Corporation, in Champaign, Illinois, where he developed advanced visualization and optimization applications. He was the principal developer of the Integrated Topology Processing® (ITP), Optimal Power Flow for Reserves® (OPFR), and Topology Error Detection (TED) modules of the Simulator® software suite, which is currently used by utilities, control centers, and universities in more than 60 countries.
Dr. Grijalva joined Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor in 2009. His research is on computational methods for power system security and economics, voltage stability, and information systems applied to large-scale electricity networks. He focuses on mission-critical real-time control algorithms, formal data modeling of complex systems such as smart grids, and integration of fringe components such as energy consumer response and renewable energies. Dr. Grijalva has more than 40 publications in the areas of power system stability and security, electricity computational systems, electricity markets, and integration of large-scale renewable energy. |